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Barbary ape
noun
- a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvanus, of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, now greatly reduced in number: a small, managed colony of unknown origin is maintained on the Rock of Gibraltar.
Barbary ape
noun
- a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana , that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae , order Primates
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Barbary ape1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
The magot is sometimes known as the Barbary ape, although of course it is not really an ape at all.
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Every fireman, and occasionally an engineer, on the passing trains, had a shot with a lump of coal at the Barbary ape.
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The Simia Inues, or Barbary ape, seems to be one, as we might expect.
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The Primates are represented by one form only, the Barbary ape, found in Gibraltar.
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Beware especially, in this house, of the paws of Marie, the Barbary ape.
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